From 6f02942419feeb6d74c6df65714b663d77890a45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexandros Tsakos Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 17:45:56 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] me --- content/article/tsakoswelsby.md | 29 ++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/article/tsakoswelsby.md b/content/article/tsakoswelsby.md index 2ee47dd..7e86022 100644 --- a/content/article/tsakoswelsby.md +++ b/content/article/tsakoswelsby.md @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ artefacts; vol. V: Bioarchaeology; vol. VI: The rock art and rock gongs. The publication of the first volume encourages us to hope that MDASP will not repeat the mistakes of the Aswan High Dam Campaign in the 1960s that, despite the efforts of some missions,[^1] remain largely -unpublished. We await a third generation of Nubiologists to complete the +unpublished. We await a third generation of Nubiologists to finish the task of completing those publications. And of course, trusting that SARS will complete their own mission's task, they will have set a good example for those responsible for the other concessions awarded during @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ awarded only in 1996 to the Gdansk Archaeological Museum Expedition awarded concessions and the entire area to be flooded, from the dam construction site to the island of Mograt, became the focus of archaeological work in Sudan for the rest of the first decade of the 21st -century (Fig. 1). The editor of the volume, Derek Welsby, head of the +century. The editor of the volume, Derek Welsby, head of the SARS mission at the MDASP, describes the history of the project in the first chapter of the volume (pp. 1--14). @@ -56,8 +56,7 @@ at least in terms of keeping up with the logistical and research challenges, are definitely worth our admiration. The present reviewer has worked with different missions in the frame of -the MDASP (see, for example, Plate 1.9 in p. 11 of the volume, as well -as Fig. 2) and knows from first-hand experience the difficulties that the +the MDASP (see, for example, Plate 1.9 in p. 11 of the volume) and knows from first-hand experience the difficulties that the missions faced. Looking back to those years, the memories from working against the clock counting down the last years of traditional life in the natural and cultural landscape of the Fourth Cataract, one feels @@ -139,15 +138,15 @@ the description of the SARS' publication of the project in p. 12. Paradoxically, a similar feeling of wanting to publish the material as quickly as possible is visible in the presentation of images. No less -than 598 Tables, Plates and Figures that have been printed in color! +than 598 Tables, Plates and Figures have been printed in color! Kudos to the typesetters, printers and funders, but the density of this material has caused the dimensions of the images to shrink and makes it impossible to see the details of half of them without a magnifying glass. This issue could have been avoided with a more thought-out selection (hence the argument above) or by the creation of a larger -volume. The price difference between printed and pdf versions is -substantial (65£ vs 15£[^3]) and those wanting to purchase the printed -version would at least be compensated by the quality of the printed +volume. The price difference between the printed and pdf versions is +substantial (65£ vs 15£[^3]) and those who choose to purchase the printed +version should at least be compensated by the quality of the printed texts and images. It remains in any case a desideratum to find one day all the datasets @@ -294,12 +293,12 @@ Preface. Salahedin Mohamed Ahmed Chapter 1: Merowe Dam Archaeological Salvage Project. The SARS Amri to Kirbekan Survey 1999-2007. Derek A. Welsby -Chapter 2: The landscape of the Fourth Nile Cataract and its -geomorphologic evolution. Pawel Wolf, Baldur Gabriel, Robert Bussert, +Chapter 2: The Landscape of the Fourth Nile Cataract and Its +Geomorphologic Evolution. Pawel Wolf, Baldur Gabriel, Robert Bussert, and Ronny Schomacker Chapter 3: Merowe Dam Project. Land use and Vegetation in the Flooding -Area of a planned Hydrodam in Northern Sudan. Arnaud Malterer +Area of a Planned Hydrodam in Northern Sudan. Arnaud Malterer Chapter 4: The Oral History of the Manasir. M. Jalal Hashim @@ -312,8 +311,8 @@ Chapter 7: Modern Vernacular Architecture and Settlements Organization at the Fourth Nile Cataract between Dar el-Arab and Dar el-Waraaq. Nadejda Reshetnikova -Chapter 8: Architecture and life in villages of the Fourth Nile Cataract -in the region of al Tiref. Frances Welsh +Chapter 8: Architecture and Life in Villages of the Fourth Nile Cataract +in the Region of al Tiref. Frances Welsh Chapter 9: Bibliography for Volume I @@ -331,14 +330,14 @@ Eigner, Dieter. "Kirbekan -- ein Dorf der Manasir am 4. Nilkatarakt." Berlin* 17 (2006): pp. 71--80. ———. "Kirbekân: A Village of the Manasir." In *"Nihna nâs al-bahar -- We are the people of the river": Ethnographic Research in the Fourth Nile Cataract Region, - Sudan*, edited by Cornelia Kleinitz and Claudia Näser, pp. 127--160. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012. + Sudan*, edited by Cornelia Kleinitz and Claudia Näser, pp. 127--60. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012. Haberlah, David. "Cultural Landscape of Dar al-Manasir." In *"Nihna nâs al-bahar -- We are the people of the river": Ethnographic Research in the Fourth Nile Cataract Region, Sudan*, edited by Cornelia Kleinitz and Claudia Näser, pp. 49--74. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012. Haberlah David and Jutta von dem Bussche. "Das Dorf Atoyah auf der Insel Sherari. Wandel der Siedlungsstruktur im Dar al-Manasir." *Der Antike Sudan: Mitteilungen der - Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin* 16 (2005): pp. 125--135. + Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin* 16 (2005): pp. 125--35. Hafsaas-Tsakos, Henriette. "Ethical Implications of Salvage Archaeology and Dam Building: The Clash between Archaeologists and Local People in Dar al-Manasir, Sudan." *Journal of Social Archaeology* 11(1), 49--76.